The now-corrected glitch used to show Calderon’s net worth at $2.2 billion in the Google results. It was pulling the data from a Forbes article for Mexican billionaires Jose and Francisco Jose Calderon Rojas. The Cavs’ Calderon is Spanish with no Mexican relatives.

The rumors had spread to the point that his Cavaliers teammates were convinced that Calderon was a billionaire playing in the NBA as a side hobby. According to a recent feature from ESPN, Calderon was regularly stuck with the check at team dinners because of his “billionaire” status.

LeBron James, who actually has the Cavaliers’ largest net worth at $400 million, told ESPN:

“It’s an ongoing joke with our team. We don’t know if it’s a joke or not, though. Channing (Frye) made him pay for a dinner. The check came and he said, ‘Give it to the billionaire.’ So, yeah. We know about it.”

Calderon himself confirmed that he’s not a billionaire.

“I don’t have family in Mexico. Nothing. I’m just from Spain. It’s a totally different guy. But the weird part is like, everything else [in the Google search] is true. It’s got my wife’s name. I got three boys. I’ve played here and there. So, everything they talk about is true, but the wealth? No. No. Not true.”

The idea of a 36-year-old journeyman guard being a billionaire would have made for a great story. It just wasn’t true.

The Cavs made Jose Calderon pay for dinner when they thought he was a billionaire

Even LeBron James was fooled.

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